We don't have the kind of..I don't know...combo of safety net/job security/something else that makes selling all your stuff to travel Asia for a few months as my British friend is doing.

Lots of countries don't have that. But they also don't have any conviction that they're the big dog in the yard.

I think that's a huge part of it--the luxury to not have to care, because you can probably get what you wanted anyway.

I just mean that makes traveling easier.

Thanks for all the thoughts on the sausage last night. I tossed it. Today I have run a million errands. I am finally getting things off my list that my parents have been nagging about. It feels great to tell them, "Yes, I did get that done." Still no job and no resumes sent out today.

More than two weeks vacation time would help.

From ABC:

Another hypothesis -- one that is becoming increasingly accepted -- is that certain non-edible varieties of pine nuts are being passed off in the marketplace as the edible variety, Munk says. Some researchers have implicated China in exporting these non-edible pine nuts.

Gee, the country that gave us poison dog food and leaded toothpaste is selling inedible pine nuts as edible? Whodathunk? Let's only import ingestibles from countries with a functioning FDA equivalent, kthkxby!

I just mean that makes traveling easier.

On the flip side, the lack of desperation for jobs means there's less of a need to travel. Look at all the countries with less job security than the US.

Jamaicans get out plenty. And we can't hop a bus/train to get there. Many of us travel because we feel we have to.

I just got a fancy big new computer monitor, and I barely know what to do with myself! It's bananas. And might actually help my neck/shoulder issues!

I don't know if I'll ever figure out how to effectively use two screens, though....

I don't know if I'll ever figure out how to effectively use two screens, though....

Email goes up on the left, other applications on the right. Works like a charm.

Jamaicans get out plenty. And we can't hop a bus/train to get there. Many of us travel because we feel we have to.

I can see that. Interesting perspective.

Email goes up on the left, other applications on the right. Works like a charm.

That is what I was thinking!

re: two monitors

One screen has the main work application and the call queue monitoring program, the other screen has the various resources and utilities that I may or may not need.

(and this page)